Ain't That America XX

I’m going to try something different this week. Rather than focusing on the many bad things happening in this country, I have opted to focus on three things that piss me off … the phony peace deal between Israel and Gaza where the bombs are still dropping … the idea that this country is bailing out another country while our government is closed and our economy is in the tank … and the rise of Nazis, rapists and murderers in the GOP and the GOP doesn’t seem to care. And then we’ll have the good news, and there is some … from judges topping Cankles … to nekkid bike riders making a mockery of the DogKiller … and ending with No Kings Day and how the march is still going on and getting larger … so let’s dish …

In case you don’t know, it was President Joe Biden who secured the release of 140 hostages in Gaze while Cankles got 28 out. If anyone deserves credit it’s the Peace President and not the guy bombing boasts in the Caribbean.

But wait, there’s more … while Israelis and Palestinians danced in the streets when news broke overnight that a deal had been reached between Hamas and Israel over the first phase of a peace deal for Gaza, the terms of the deal were in place more than a year ago.

Gershon Baskin, the architect of the negotiations that freed the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011, revealed that Hamas had agreed to the exact same terms of the Cankles deal in September 2024, in the last months of the Biden administration, but that Biden officials had disregarded it while Benjamin Netanyahu had refused point blank.

Bibi and Cankles met at Mar-a-Lago and decided to hold off on the treaty until Cankles took office to avoid giving credit to President Biden, so every single bomb, every rifle shot, on both sides,. And every death of men, women and children, is the fault of Cankles and Bibi who allowed war to continue and people to die so they could get the “win.”

Murderers and war criminals, both.

While hundreds of thousands of American service members brace for missed paychecks during the Cankles-GOP shutdown. The president decided to hand over $40 billion to Argentina … and to makes matters worse, his billionaire friends will make money on the deal while Americans go without pay.

Pay will be frozen soon for the troops and is now frozen for most federal workers and then the Cankles Regime began laying off government workers while the Treasury gives billions away to Argentina.

Hey MAGAts? How does this Make America Great Again? And how do you feel knowing that every single American is paying $100 each to save a foreign president from an economy he created? Do you have a wife and a couple of kids?

You paid $400 to help Argentina.

Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway and now they got caught referring to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and giggled about putting their political opponents in gas chambers … raping their enemies and driving them to suicide:

William Hendrix, the Kansas Young Republicans’ vice chair, used the words “n–ga” and “n–guh,” variations of a racial slur, more than a dozen times in the chat. Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans at the time, referred to rape as “epic.” Peter Giunta, who at the time was chair of the same organization, wrote in a message sent in June that “everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber.”

Vice President JD CouchF*cker Vance waded into the uproar, drawing criticism by saying a Democratic politician’s text messages suggesting the former Virginia House speaker should be shot were worse:

“This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence.”

Remember JD was the wimpy little lapdog called Cankles ‘America’s Hitler’ and now he’s the guy who rationalized Young Republicans praising Hitler.”

When they show you who they are … racist, Nazis, rapists, believe them.

Out in Oklahoma, where new state schools Superintendent Lindel Fields—who took over for MAGAt faux Christian and porn addict Ryan Walters, announced that he is dropping a Bible-teaching mandate for Oklahoma public schools issued by his predecessor.

It’s quite simple: the Separation of Church and State keeps religion out of schools, but if you want to learn the Bible you can go to a religious school or a church. You don’t need to inflict your faith on others.

At the Pentagon this week a  flyer with the words “journalism is not a crime” appeared on the wall outside the “Correspondents’ Corridor” where journalists operate; it was a silent protest of Defense Secretary, and DUI hire,  Pete Hegseth’s new policy that severely restricts press access.

The policy criminalizes routine reporting, according to media lawyers and advocates, so nearly all news outlets … even Fox News … are refusing to abide by it and are giving up their access while vowing to cover Hegseth and the military from outside the Pentagon’s five walls.

Nice to see the press take a stand. Now, take on the White House.

US District Judge Susan Illston issued an emergency order that the Cankles’ Regime must stop firing workers during the government shutdown. Illston said the administration was acting without thinking through its decisions … go figure … and said:

“It’s very much ready, fire, aim on most of these programs, and it has a human cost and it’s a human cost that cannot be tolerated.”

Stand up!

MAGAt supporters who paid for the new Cankles watches are seriously ticked off with many calling the sale a scam ... the watches are actually made in Wyoming, not in Switzerland ... after their orders were never filled.

Wait. Cankles scammed you on your Cankles watch, for which you paid anywhere from $499 to $2,999 per watch, or $5,389 for the “Ultra Mega Collector Set?”

Huh. Who saw that coming?

This week Australia’s highest court rejected US conservative commentator, and certifiable nutjob, Candace Owens’ bid to overturn an Australian government decision barring her from visiting the country. Three High Court judges unanimously rejected Owens’ challenge to Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s decision in 2024 to refuse her a visa on character grounds.

Sorry, Candy, they don’t want you.

The city of Lansing, Michigan will become an LGBTQ+ Welcoming City after City Council members voted unanimously  to pass a resolution expressing support for the LGBTQ+ community. The resolution “recognizes that, in the face of inadequate state and federal protections, we must take proactive steps to safeguard our most vulnerable residents.”

It’s a step and one step leads to another.

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

Good. SCOTUS did something right for a change.

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will not broadcast a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying Democrats caused the federal government shutdown  due to its “political nature” saying:

“The Port of Seattle will not play the video on its screens at SEA Airport, due to the political nature of the content. We continue to urge bipartisan efforts to end the government shutdown and are working to find ways to support federal employees working without pay at SEA during the shutdown.”

And then Phoenix  joined Seattle, followed quickly by Portland … Buffalo, Charlotte, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Dallas Love Field, Denver, JFK, LaGuardia, Newark, and San Francisco …

This is The Resistance at work.

Protesters rallying against the Cankles’ Regime in Portland put the city’s quirky and irreverent reputation on display last week by pedaling through the streets wearing nothing — or close to it — in an “emergency” edition of the annual World Naked Bike Ride. The ride usually happens in the summer, but organizers hastily said another nude ride was necessary to speak out against Cankles’ attempts to mobilize the National Guard to quell protests.

Crowds have gathered daily and nightly outside the immigration facility in Portland donning inflatable frog, unicorn, axolotl and banana costumes as they face off with federal law enforcement who often deploy tear gas and pepper balls.

Nekkid Resistance.

This week Cankles lied … what else is new … blaming the January 6 Capitol riot on former President Joe Biden, claiming that:

“THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM – DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT”

Trouble is, Biden was not president on that day and in control of the federal government, which includes the FBI.

Cankles was in charge on 1/6 and is trying to rewrite history.

The Cankles Regime raced to rescind layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control [CDC] who were mistakenly fired on in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

Among those wrongly dismissed were the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, those working to contain Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, and the team that assembles the C.D.C.’s vaunted scientific journal, The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

The stupidity of this fascist clown car is stunning.

Cankles is quite upset about the photo of him on the latest issue of Time magazine, whining on Truth Social”

“Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They ‘disappeared’ my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?”

Pictures don’t lie … and I notice you said nothing about your vagina neck.

Sean Duffy, reality show star and Transportation Secretary, says the No Kings protests are part of antifa, paid protesters.

It begs two questions, the first being: if antifa is anti-fascism and you, Sean Duffy, are anti-anti-fascism that makes you pro-fascism?

And who has so much money they can pay millions and millions of people all around the world to attend a No Kings protest. Like all in the regime, when Duffy speaks, it’s a lie.

As the House remains out of session into a third week, Speaker Mike Johnson defended his decision to not swear in Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva until the full chamber returns to Washington.

But maybe it’s the fact that Grijalva, the Arizona Democrat who won a special election last month, would be the 218th signature needed to force a bipartisan vote to compel the release of more Jeffrey Epstein case files.

Little Mike is scrambling to save his master.

It appears that members of Congress are growing irritated by Border Barbie’s power. They claim that necessary government contracts are being slow-walked and that her office has become difficult to communicate with … go figure, there’s probably no photo op happening.

At the Federal Emergency Management Agency, housed in DHS, the DogKiller’s antics have significantly slowed the agency’s normally routine process of distributing much-needed funds to states trying to rebuild in the aftermath of natural disasters.

Huh, maybe the GOP should have seen that before they approved her nomination.

The US Chamber of Commerce sued the Cankles Regime over its decision to raise the fee for H-1B work visa applications to $100,000, arguing that Cankles exceeded his authority in altering the visa program.; you don’t say?

And are they going to ask where these extra funds will be going?

Admiral Alvin Holsey, the military commander overseeing the Pentagon’s escalating attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea that the Regime says are smuggling drugs is stepping down.

It was unclear why Admiral Holsey is leaving less than a year into his tenure, and in the midst of the biggest operation in his 37-year career but one of the US officials—all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity—say Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats.

Holsey is Resisting.

Cankles #3 son, Eric, bizarrely stated he's Daddy’s "good boy"—and now a wave of mockery is lighting up social media. It started when CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked Eric:

"Obviously there are investment projects happening in Indonesia. First off, have you heard from the president?"

Collins was referring to a hot mic moment in which Cankles was overheard speaking to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, saying "I'll have Eric call you" and referring to him as a "good boy." The audio immediately supercharged rumors of a corrupt backroom business deal, which has become commonplace with this regime but it didn’t help Eric’s Dumb reputation when he said:

"No, not about that but I'm glad he acknowledges that I'm a good boy. I am a good boy."

In addition to being an incredibly strange thing for a grown man to say, Eric’s Good Little Boy moment spurred on the internet:

"What grown man says he's glad his Dad thinks he's a good boy????"

"If a Democrat offered him a hug he'd rat his daddy out tomorrow..."

"'I’m a good boy' says 41-year-old Eric. And he knows it’s true, because he made all gone with his bowl of paint chips this morning. And unlike daddy, he hasn’t made boom-boom in his pants today. But it’s early."

"Eric … has somehow out-parodied The Onion's depiction of him.”

That family is the poster family for dysfunction/

Lastly, organizers for Saturday’s No Kings protests against Cankles said nearly seven million Americans took part—two million more than the first “No Kings” protest in June:

“In one of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in U.S. history, nearly seven million Americans gathered today, 2 million more than June, in over 2,700 cities and towns for the No Kings Day of Peaceful Action, standing together in nonviolent defiance of authoritarianism and affirming that this nation belongs to its people, not to kings. With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, today’s mobilization was 14 times larger than both of President Trump’s presidential inaugurations combined, marking a historic moment of unity and resistance,” the statement added. “From rural communities to major metropolitan centers, the message was clear: America will not be ruled by fear, force, or one man’s power grab.”

Cultists are, of course, denying those numbers but at the Columbia protest we met many Republicans who came out in protest of Cankles. Keep the momentum up and take that to the polls, this fall and in 2026.

Architecture Wednesday: Bugatti House

They call the house the Bugatti House; they call them crazy angles, I call them Seussical.

This house located just outside Mendoza, Argentina, has over 4800 square meters, but it’s not the size …it’s the walls and the ceiling and the shapes of the rooms that intrigue me.

The architect chose to organize the house into pavilions that could be adapted to the different needs of daily life; the first pavilion would take care of the common areas: the living room, dining room, kitchen, services, and, most important of all, the wine cellar.

A second pavilion would house the master bedroom, with additional space that would allow moments of peace and quiet and privacy from the public spaces of the house, such as a small secondary living room and office.

The third pavilion would house three en suite bedrooms, another living space and a game room.

The three pavilions are connected by a central space, a large hallway, that integrates them and connects with a gallery and the garden. These three pavilions can be closed off from the rest of the house, and from one another, allowing for varying states of coexistence.

It’s all about the privacy and the wonky angles, I guess.

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Following In Argentina's Footsteps

Since Argentina voted to legalize same-sex marriage last week, it now seems likely that two of its neighboring countries are on the same path toward full equality to all their citizens.

Gay rights groups in both Uruguay and Paraguay are pushing their respective parliaments to consider bills to give gay couples equal marriage rights.

Uruguay, many say, will be the first of the two to grant equal marriage rights, as the government already allows civil unions, adoption rights for gay couples, the right for gay people to serve openly in the military and grants trans people the option of legally changing their gender.

Wow! Uruguay so progressive and modern while we here in America still sit and ponder and debate and survey any issue regarding LGBT equality.

Diego Sempol of Las Ovejas Negras [The Black Sheep] announced that his group was in very promising discussions with Uruguayan leaders. Paraguay, on the other hand, seems less likely to make the change, since most of that country's church leaders are speaking out against same-sex marriage before a bill has even been introduced.

A Paraguayan gay rights group, Somosgay, announced this week it would lobby for a bill, but Roman Catholic Bishop Adalberto Martinez promised an "intense educational campaign" on Christian values, while the country's vice-president Federico Franco said man and woman were created to raise a family.

Now that sounds like America.

But I'll stick with Team Uruguay.

What's New Buenos Aires?

Well, for starters:
Argentina has became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage.
Lawmakers in the Senate passed the bill after 14 hours of debate that began Wednesday night and carried on in to this morning; the bill had already passed the lower chamber of Congress.
But now, in Argentina, LGBT people have equal marriage rights, including the ability to adopt children. And, even better, Argentinean President, Cristina Kirchner, has already said she will sign it.
Argentina becomes yet another Roman Catholic country--like the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain--where same-sex marriage is legal. Among them are the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain.
Take note, America.
We used to be the forerunner in the world.
Now, we stand on the sidelines as everyone else moves forward.

Argentina Takes A Bold Step

By a vote of 129 to 105, with 6 abstentions, and 16 absent lawmakers, the Argentinean House of Deputies approved an historic marriage equality bill.

In.Argentina.

Whattsamatter USA?

Maria Rachid, Director of The Argentinian LGBT Federation [FALGBT], noted that it was the first time that the body of a legislative branch of a government had voted in favor of same-sex marriage in all of Latin America.

The vote followed some 11 hours of debate, and counted support from the Socialist Party as well as supporters of the Cristina Férnandez de Kirchner government; deputies were freed by their parties to "vote their conscience" earlier in the day.

In order for marriage equality to become law, the Argentinean Senate must now debate and approve the bill, which will be a much challenge. Still, a Senate vote could come within weeks. Even before this historic vote, five same-sex couples were granted the right to marry in Argentina, including Alex Freyre and José María Di Bello [that's the happy couple at the top], who married last December, becoming the first same-sex couple to ever marry in all of Latin America. Their marriage, along with two others, were later annulled.

Still, Argentina moves ahead, and yet we stand in the shadows in the United States.